Comment 17 for bug 595138

Apologies, the problem is not present in Precise, and hdparm is working fine. (smartd was spinning up my disk.)

I suggest this bug be closed.

This isn't exactly the right place to say it, but hdparm should be extended to provide more ways of specifying devices in hdparm.conf other than the /dev path, so disk label, disk serial number, physical path, etc., could be used. Obviously putting the hdparm script in /lib/udev is a step towards this.

For instance, I have two internal disks and a hot-swap caddy. Normally the internal disks are /dev/sda and /dev/sdb, but if there's a disk in the caddy when I boot, this becomes /dev/sdb and one of the internal disks becomes /dev/sdc.